Explorations of this steeply sloped, wooded site overlooking a small private stone beach in Center Bay suggested a switchback organization of spaces where the slope has been extended and combined with the introduction of a meandering path that traverses the site. This pathway purposefully ...
Modified: November 19, 2018... upon similarities between the vernacular of Norway and Tomales Bay, finding that both areas had rugged, utilitarian structures that integrate with the landscape in a similar way. The naturally weathered Alaskan yellow cedar siding and the use of plywood throughout the interior provide durability, and align with the family's active outdoor lifestyle. Sustainability was a priority in all material choices, including FSC-certified sustainable wood flooring, ceiling and cabinetry, with non-toxic and ...
Modified: August 31, 2018... withdraw and contradict his environment within the limits of habitability. This contradiction of bringing urban life and its comforts in the middle of the forest requires the perceptual distance of the interior space, which loses the natural texture of the wood to put on an artificial, almost dreamy white, so that when it comes out, the natural becomes everywhere. its splendor and surprise, concentrating in the main window and the terrace that essential interrelation: the concrete dialogue between the artificial ...
Modified: August 27, 2018Tucked in an old sleepy woods Etno Hut is the tiniest shelter for your romantic getaway, creative studio, yoga retreat camp or anything you can think of doing surrounded by breathtaking Lithuanian nature. It started as a personal architectural project. The primary idea was to ...
Modified: July 28, 2018... maintain the garden view between the two homes and to connect the inside living area to its natural surrounding outside. The new home built leaving the north and south garden as well as the southern home used to be. It is a composition that permeable wooden roof and wall gently cover the main volume. The gaps between the main volume and permeable wood make "Tori-michi" that can pass through the parents house to outside , and create triangular gable openings that connect the whole house inside....
Modified: July 12, 2018This house in concrete and dark wood creates a raw yet refined atmosphere. It was planned within a strict parameter of the City planning commission. The main facade in dark wood provides an insight into a large music room and a generous circulation space. This is the public street facade....
Modified: June 15, 2018... morning and evening terrace sustain in the parental garden? Julia has been searching the real estate market a long time, wanting buy a small flat. She figured out that nothing which fits to her needs and budget. So, she decided to built a small customized wooden home in the parental garden. The site is right in the centre of the small city. She can walk or cycle to work, to shop and to meet her friends. Uniquely is the privacy and silence of her two terraces. The house got built on last green spot in the ...
Modified: May 12, 2018... building technology. The facades and roof are built with sandwichpanels with high density insulation and all connections with the window frames have been sealed double. The facades and roof parts are finished with black timber cladding of wax conserved pinewood. The building system with a steel skeleton and sandwich panels is very uncommon for its’ use in single privatehousing. It is much more common in use for large factory halls with less precise building details. In this house the building system has ...
Modified: April 12, 2018... a second generation farm which has diversified to host weddings and provide accommodation showcasing the areas natural beauty. It is a place to switch off, quite literally, and forget about the distractions of modern life. Sustainable Australian hardwoods were the obvious choice given the huts ‘eco’ brief and remote location. Materials needed to be easily sourced and handled on site by a two person owner-builder team. The huts form was inspired by a classic ‘A’ frame tent, which simultaneously ...
Modified: April 08, 2018... beautiful view on Pyhrn-Priel-Region, an alpine region in Upper Austria. The private builders wanted to create a house that harmoniously matches the surroundings and brings the outdoors inside. The young family requested a calm, clear architecture made of wood, concrete and glass. The solid timber house with its precisely chosen elements is simple and complex at once. Simplicity comes from the clear structure and proportion of base, ground floor and roof. Complexity comes from spacial variety. At the high ...
Modified: March 17, 2018... inserted into it. They include a dramatic entry gallery, a narrow vertical slot for the stairs, and a high ceilinged living space with a sloping wall of glass. These spaces are on a grand scale and they are finished with exposed concrete and charred wood, which run continuously in from the exterior. The interior of the inner volume contains private spaces of the house – bedrooms, bathroom and a study. These spaces are on an intimate scale with more typical domestic finishes. The experience of moving ...
Modified: March 14, 2018The Woodman’s Treehouse is a luxurious two-storey suite arranged between and beneath the canopy of aged oaks. Far from being a woodland folly it is the sleepover den every grown-up dreamed of as a child; a self-contained tree-top world of tricks and toys,...
Modified: February 24, 2018Incredible ctyle and laconism surrounded by the picturesque scenery of wild woods in Latvia. The inspiration idea was to create an utopic symbiosis of nature and innovational architecture.
Modified: February 14, 2018Building a house in the picturesque Bregenzerwald valley in Western Austria, on a very steep hill outside the village centre, on a quiet road where several homes of varying size and artistic value had been built in recent years on both sides of the road. The The Höller House is – and will, for topographical reasons, remain – the last house on the northern side. The assignment was to come up with a new building for this steep, exposed place, only used to herd goats before. A building that would be...
Modified: January 28, 2018... the site of an old family cottage, just steps away from the shores of Lac Plaisant in the Mauricie region. Thanks to its simplicity, restraint and refinement, the project embodies the architect’s attempt to capture the essence of cottage life – a wooden home designed for vacations and enabling true communion with nature. Featuring wood construction inside and out, the house’s single large gable covers all living spaces. Sited in a small clearing, its foundation invisible, the home is a pure,...
Modified: January 08, 2018... through the playful use of complementary surface materials. The BLACK BOX II addition is covered with large plates of iridescent, black fibre cement board, with a perforated motif for the loggia, finely assembled with matching rivets. In contrast, blond wood and light porcelain and ceramics, illuminate the interior. When large windows fold open to incorporate the garden into the home, interior and exterior materials interact to connect spaces. Inside, oak wood paneling covers the walls and ceiling of ...
Modified: December 10, 2017... architects used a prefabricated timber construction system for the facades and gables. These elements were built directly in the workshop, being later transported on-site. The "skeleton" of the house was made of concrete. The prefabricated wooden facades were then attached to the interior concrete structure. All facades of the house are made of a spruce structure which is filled with fiberglass insulation and then covered with spruce boards. Spruce trees are native to the area. By using ...
Modified: November 14, 2017The clients had fallen in love with the beautiful site on the outskirts of the market town of Morpeth, and so did we; steeply sloping and edged by woodland, it is a wonderful, challenging context with a brief to create a family home sympathetic to the setting whilst embodying the excitement of a woodland hideaway. The building adapts to the sites contours, with arrival separated from private south ...
Modified: November 10, 2017... conceived as a residential landscape floating above the terrain. The floor is cast of pigmented concrete and incorporates space-defining steps that accommodate height differences between the kitchen area, the dining room, and the living room. The peripheral wooden deck accentuates the floating condition as well as the link between inside and outside. The integrated furniture and the facades are deliberately designed without a uniform species of wood: using elm for the kitchen, larch for the facade, and silver ...
Modified: November 08, 2017... only in the basement. The entrance, the photographer’s studio and the auxiliary-rooms are placed in the basement. Kitchen, living-room and bed-rooms are distributed among the two houses. The two buildings – one with a plastered, the other with a wooden façade – are standing along a small village lane. Picture windows open the site towards the private garden and the landscape. Architecture The position of the constructions as well as the reduction of the applied materials, adopts the typology ...
Modified: October 10, 2017... a stripped down, almost purified aesthetic. Simplicity is luxury,” affirms Lexie Mork-Ulnes, the architect’s wife who was in charge of all the interior design for the house. The interiors The interiors of the house are completely wrapped in warm wood, that is used for the floors and ceilings as well as for some of the custom-made furniture that Lexie designed specifically for the project, such as the dining table bench and the bar stools. Bespoke furniture is combined with Scandinavian designs ...
Modified: October 08, 2017... of the existing building, and re-uses the geometrical principle with asymmetrical dormer windows to let in light and give a view from the loft. The primary construction for the extension is prefabricated pine glulam. The interior is clad in birch plywood, while the exterior is clad in untreated spruce, which has grayed after two years of exposure to sunlight and rain. The roof is clad in standing seam zincroofing, and the windows have two-fold frames with aluminum in the exterior and wood in the ...
Modified: September 24, 2017A rear addition to an existing double fronted period home in West Brunswick, The Nest consists of a new open plan living area and a mezzanine. The client’s brief specified that the kitchen should be the focal point of the house with all family rooms interacting with this area. The solution came in the form of a nest-like mezzanine studio that floats above the living area. Underneath the canopy of a dramatic, north-facing raked roof, the mezzanine facilitates interaction between each room in the house...
Modified: September 20, 2017... are inserted into the green areas as free-standing structures. They are derived from Anthroposophic teachings and appear in a translated, polygonal, crystalline form. To break direct translation, the volumes were however clad in vertically structured wooden boards. The appearance is invigorated through the seemingly arbitrary use of differently dimensioned, yet always formally congruent windows. The situation on the slope allows floor-level access to all storeys. The lower ground floors, which have ...
Modified: August 26, 2017The Corbett Residence is on a wooded site, down a winding drive. The drive is thin and meanders between trees to protect the house from view. The house is a low black box that strikes a line across the slope, mimicking the horizon. The house is at the edge of a hill, above a creek,...
Modified: August 24, 2017... former coach house that makes up the shell of ‘House of Rolf’ was originally built in 1895 in the back garden of a wealthy aristocrat’s home located on the stately Maliebaan in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 1955 an outbuilding was constructed in wood between the residences on the Maliebaan and the coach house. Although initially intended as a temporary structure the building stood for 57 years. In 2008, when the stately office buildings on the Maliebaan were being turned into private homes, this ...
Modified: August 20, 2017... garage accommodates two vehicles, with extra room for tuning skis and other recreational equipment. Notably, primary access to the chalet is neatly concealed, mediated through a screened and covered entry passage articulated with vertically oriented wood slats painted white. This device achieves not only privacy and protection from the elements, but also a diffusely lit transitionary sequence for those arriving and departing. On the interior, the spare qualities of the exterior are reflected through ...
Modified: July 28, 2017... volume enlarge the farm. Two chimney shaped skylights create light and a view on to the first floor. A third chimney houses the air outlet of the heat pump. Old and new collaborate together, but both will remain visible. The new volumes are finished in wood. The old brick exterior is felt inside when entering the house. The new stairs are a reminder of the old mouldering stair that was removed. The buttresses and strips of brick in the floor show the former layout of the barn. The double height of the ...
Modified: July 24, 2017... Two annex buildings will be completed at a later stage, creating a small yard and a sheltered and sunny terrace. The cladding of the outer walls and roof is made of horizontal local hard pine in large dimensions. The elongated gutters are also made of wood. Interior cladding and furniture are made of pine without knots. The interior wood are wax treated and not sealed to keep its natural performance. The fireplace, kitchen and foundation are in grey in situ concrete with wooden formwork.
Modified: July 18, 2017... without having to clean the site. Regarding the materialization of the project, timber was chosen not only because it is a local material that could anchor the house to the place by affiliations with the natural and the cultural, but also because the wooden structures, in opposition with other kind of material ensembles, are naturally built using infinite linear elements that as a result, resemble the sense of infinity that is present in forests and could enter in a sort of vibration with the exterior....
Modified: July 10, 2017... existing vegetation, we decided to put the emphasis on the verticality of the setting. The project was built at the top of the cliff so as to benefit from its height, and emulates the upright structure of the spruce forest, like a hunter’s blind in the woods. It is located in the heart of the forest, near a group of birch trees that take centre stage. For this reason, the living room windows and doors were designed as tableaux, so the monumentality of the setting can be appreciated. The project unfolds ...
Modified: June 16, 2017Awarded 1st place nationally in 2016 for the best wooden construction in Slovenia. The Wooden House is a residential building embodying the elusive architectural quality of blurring the line between external and internal spaces. The Wooden House was designed with the intent to provide a resilient shelter ...
Modified: June 10, 2017Built in the second half of the 19th century, the barn was originally situated at the entrance to the village of praz-de-fort in the val d'entremont, and had been abandoned. as part of the conversion process, it was first dismantled and then rebuilt a few kilometres further into the valley, at saleinaz. A new independent structure and an internal skin were constructed inside the envelope formed by the old barn. this separation from the external structure enabled a rich spatial mix to be created via...
Modified: April 16, 2017Built upon the retaining wall which sections a hill slope, this house’s geometry manifests the encounter between the natural rise of the terrain and a manmade plateau. Above all, the construction lies in the intersection of natural terrain and human habitat. Located in the outskirts of São Francisco Xavier, a small village in the countryside of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, the lot is a steep terrain, as it is part of the mountain ridge that comprises Serra da Mantiqueira. The lot had a plateau...
Modified: February 16, 2017Our clients will live amongst light and the warmth of wood, while presiding over the spectacular views towards Oxwich Point. The material language of the ground floor responds to the medieval tradition of dry stone walling found in the area. Portal windows to the ground floor bedrooms cantilever over a reflecting ...
Modified: December 02, 2016The intervention involved the renovation of the penthouse and the energy retrofit of the entire building. A wood structure was added to the existence envelope, it forms a big covered balcony for the first floor and a nice pergola for the ground floor. The large ground floor windows crate a continuity between the living room and the courtyard. The new wooden ...
Modified: November 28, 2016... creating a strong link between home and garden. It tries to invent a new kind of space, at the same time "inside" and "outside." It offers a unique situation, different from the existing one. To achieve this, the architects designed a wooden structure attached to the facade containing an aluminium veranda (an extension of the living room), a sheltered terrace and an outside staircase, linking the ground floor level to the garden. Construction is both lightweight and transparent, reminding ...
Modified: November 22, 2016Perched at the top of a wooded knoll in the Hudson Valley, the Lantern Ridge House accentuates mountain views while camouflaging itself in the densely forested environment. At night, the typically obscured house becomes a beacon for passing cars and a guiding light for our homeward-bound ...
Modified: September 28, 2016... landscape. From the outside, the house stands on its territory modifying and establishing a new landscape of contrasts through an object of pure geometry. The house develops in two simple volumes enhancing the expression of the building in its materials: wood and rock. The wood is interpreted by a reconstruction of its veins by the succession of different Cypress wooden planks with different widths. The rock, composed the same way granite is, by mixing different small rocks of various sizes and colors,...
Modified: September 26, 2016... asked our advice on adjustments. SeARCH proposed to start from scratch and tailored the program more compact and site specific (the steep hillside). The ‘traditional’ chalet, originating from ‘chahtelèt’ (shepherd’s hut) consists of a solid wooden house with shutters and gable roof, resting on a stone foundation. In the Swiss Alps, the chalet has gradually become a ‘multi-gabled’ pastiche as luxury ski-chalet or grew to mega proportions with a maximum of apartments for affordable tourism....
Modified: September 18, 2016The main objective of this project was to build a house adapted to the marine climate of Brittany in compliance with the French RT 2012 energy regulations using bio-sourced materials and including elements such as a conservatory, a wood-burning stove and a two-way airflow central ventilation system. It was through searching the web for information on passive buildings with arched roofs that the project manager chose an architect who also aims to create healthy living conditions ...
Modified: August 26, 2016The house is built in Lučatín, a small village in central part of Slovakia. This fragile environment has clearly set the limits and inputs – volume of building, scale, urbanism of village, wood as a material – both structural and visual. There has been an older brick house standing on the site of the new house. Its condition was poor, therefor it has been replaced by new construction. The volume of new house reproduces the original one....
Modified: August 10, 2016... sunrays. The studio opening is protected by 2mts of roof overhang that prevent direct radiation during the hottest season. The big opening at the living room is designed in line with the outer wall; therefore, a 1mt deep sunshade overhang designed in wood is placed above it, to protect it from direct sunlight during summer. The overhangs’ design and placement, allow the winter sunrays to enter the interior spaces helping the heating of the same. The temperature and pressure differences between south ...
Modified: June 07, 2016A large shell shaped structure finds itself in the middle of the woods. It is hard to determine what exactly the structure is, and unlike the surrounding caves and rocks, it clearly is not a part of nature – nor is it a ruin. A frame, a shape, made at a completely different place for a completely different purpose....
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